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BiographyVuyani Goniwe
Vuyani Goniwe, also known as Jorissen (his MK name), from Ntselamanzi Location, Alice in the Eastern Cape, left South Africa in 1977 together with Bandile…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
… Urdang started working as a consultant for the United Nations (UN) when she became a member of staff for the Mid-Decade United Nations World Conference on…
BiographyEddie J. Khaile
Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… In November 1977, Kleinschmidt addressed the United Nations Security Council stating that the apartheid regime …
BiographyStanislaus Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni
… 1981, Professor Sangweni was Acting Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, based in Lusaka, … – 1991, he was Senior Programme Officer…
BiographyTiego Moseneke
Tiego Moseneke, former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke’s younger brother, died on 19 April 2023 following a car accident. He was born on 4 August 1963 in…
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine working-class leader.In 1940's…
BiographyMathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa was born on 1 September 1952 in Mbombela Township, Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). He grew up with his grandfather…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… including the Rural Women’s Movement and the United Nations. Sonke Gender Justice, a NGO committed to the …
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… the 1980s Chifunyise started consulting for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… colour distinctions, founds the International Socialist League (ISL). The foundation of the International Socialist League, by the 'anti-war'…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… Apartheid in New York. In his address he urged the United Nations to do everything in its power to maintain the … resigns from the Executive of both the ANC…
BiographyDr Franklin Abraham Sonn
Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn was born in October 1939 in Vosburg in the Karoo, Northern Cape and raised in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. Dr Sonn graduated from…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… Peter Mda as president of African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) Walter Sisulu ’s book South Africa Behind Bars … Committee (NEC) after differences…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…
BiographyMichael Matlala
Michael (‘Mikia’) Matlala took part in Wold War 1. According to his family, he was banished, from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… as chairman, both members of the International Socialist League. In the same year the Indian Printers Union was … June 1916, a mass meeting was organised by…
Hettie Du Preez
Hettie du Preez has made an outstanding contribution to the struggle against political and economic injustice in South Africa. She was a prominent figure in…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… 9TH of April the inaugural meeting of the African Youth League working under the auspices of the African National … were a negative factor in the progress of…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… with the formation, within the ANC , of the Congress Youth League (CYL) in 1943.This group of young, more assertive … and in 1943 began to press for the…
Balfour Declaration 1926
… associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. now, as regards all vital matters, reached its full … the case of treaties negotiated under the…
BiographyWilliam Tilden McClain
William Tilden McClain, son of Mary and Harry McClain and an elder brother to David Jack McClain was born on 14 January 1923 in Shelbyville, Indiana. McClain…
BiographyZolile Malindi
Zolile Malindi was born on 16th of May in 1924 Gqogqora village ,a 14 miles from Tsomo in the former Transkei. His mother, Makhesa, raised him after the death…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… Party leaders in the Cape, form the National Liberation League (NLL), the first expression of a radical new national … to a conference called by the National…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… helping to power the economies of Africa’s resource-rich nations. [11] The continent’s two most profitable mineral … including Marseille in France and the…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… and Anton Lembede, president of the newly formed ANC Youth League, were the main speakers. Lembede warned Albertina that … here husband to the founding…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… in cell. 16 August George, Thembalake (15) KWT Youth League King William's Town Mother found victim unresponsive … gathering. 18/19 August Ndzandze,…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… and revolution.In the course of this unrest the Spartacist League led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht played a leading role. The Spartacist League was…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… the Smuts Government and raise the issue before the United Nations Organisation (UNO). A NIC mass meeting in Durban on 3 … organisations whose support they…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… 2013 in Soweto. The party was formed by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and former ANC Youth League spokesman Floyd Shivambu. The…